60 Minutes drama: children snatched from street

NINE has aired video believed to show the moment an Australian mother attempted to retrieve her children off a Beirut street.

Reporter Tara Brown and her 60 Minutes crew have been detained while filming in the Lebanese capital.

Brisbane mother Sally Faulkner had hired an international retrieval agency as a last-ditch attempt to bring the children back to Australia, after they were taken to the Middle East last year by their father Ali el-Amine.

Grainy CCTV footage appears to show two young children - believed to be Ms Faulkner's six-year-old daughter Lahela and four-year-old son Noah - snatched from two women by a group who emerged from a parked car.